Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven's music was very sloppy [as Composer Britten said], but there are still enough of us around with no musical training and a protracted childhood admiration of Beethoven who prefer to glow naively in the light of the Eroica than to endure the involute bleatings of Britain's Britten...
...middle-aged lady expressed the meaning of Police Day when she approached a U.S. correspondent who was waiting, in his U.S. car, for the light to change at a Prague streetcorner. "You are an American, aren't you?" she asked. "Please ask your government to do something. We suffer so much...
...Then the light changed and the correspondent drove...
...Friends." In the grey stone embassy, light from the blazing chandeliers gleamed on serried ranks of vodka bottles. There were endless toasts -for the glorious Red Army and its beloved leader, Comrade Stalin; for generals, colonels, majors, captains and so on. One guest reported later: "After the toast for the captains the party lost dignity." Thorez chummily first-named the ambassador: "We are all friends, aren't we, Alex, and brothers...
...three Crimson aces, Dan Ray at 145, Don Louria at 165, and Captain Pete Fuller at unlimited, should win, and perhaps get a couple of pins among them, but Yale has the edge in the other classes. Once again the light positions and 175 hold the balance...